These are small
cellular base stations to which phones in the plane would connect just like they would any other cell tower.
Wireless network signal strength varies across regions given the placement of
cellular base stations, characteristics of geography (like urban areas, valleys, next to big mountains), varying weather and the amount of users on a network at any given time.
This report describes embodied energy for
cellular base stations, which is a major part of the electricity used for the cellular network.
One lesson learned was to use the satellites to connect to
cellular base stations on the ground, not to individual specialized phones.
One patent cited in the lawsuit, for example, improves the rate of data flowing to a phone by reducing the amount of information the phone must communicate to
a cellular base station.
The company designs and manufactures antennas and related wireless communication systems, including
cellular base station, mobile, cellular, conformal and flat panel antennas.
Aviat is very strong in TDM and will continue to leverage this as they build out there 4G / WIMAX abilities, given backhaul networks require more and more traffic provisioning
cellular base station traffic is up 10 fold in 3 years and expected to double every 2 years, according to Yankee Group.
A femtocell — or «microcell» — is a small, low - power
cellular base station that connects to the cellular network via your broadband Internet connection.
Not exact matches
«This technology could have very important applications in ultra-high-speed links for the wireless «backhaul» that connects
base stations of next - generation
cellular systems,» said Andy Molisch of USC Viterbi.
While Wi - Fi is a local area network broadcast at 2400 and 5000 Mhz and is as such ideal for speedy data transfers within a limited range, a
cellular network is a wide area network operating in the 800 - 900 or 1900 - 2100 Mhz range and connecting to the internet via a
base station.
Footnote 1 in CBC states that the networking electricity for a tablet or cell phone is 300 kWh / year, the embodied energy for a tablet is 100 kWh / year, with the implication that the embodied energy for the
cellular network (i.e. that contained in the manufacturing and construction of the
base stations and related equipment) is 300 kWh / year per tablet or cell phone (that makes 700 kWh / year total).
In addition to broadcasting over millimeter waves, 5G
base stations will also have many more antennas than the
base stations of today's
cellular networks — to take advantage of another new technology: massive MIMO.
The picocell then beams their signal to a communications satellite, which in turn beams the signal back to a
base station on the ground where it can connect to Earth's
cellular networks.